Custer, NE: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF ANSLEY - (NE), CITY OF BROKEN BOW - (NE), CITY OF SARGENT - (NE), CUSTER PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT, DAWSON POWER DISTRICT, LOUP VALLEYS RURAL P P D, VILLAGE OF ARNOLD - (NE), VILLAGE OF CALLAWAY - (NE)

ISO / market

SPP (Southwest Power Pool)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

40

Industrial retail rate

8.0¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

2 of 8 serving utilities: 12.5 to 13.0¢/kWhLowest to highest industrial rate among the utilities serving this county (EIA-861 Sales to Ultimate Customers). A spread, not the county’s rate, and it covers only the serving utilities that report one.

Interconnection queue

None on record

Proposed generation

None on file (EIA-860M)Units filed with EIA as planned or under construction (Form EIA-860M). Declared intent from the federal inventory, not the interconnection queue and not guaranteed capacity.

Grid carbon intensity

872 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

197 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

5,474 employed in construction within ~120 km (11 of 20 counties reporting)A large build needs hundreds of skilled construction workers on site for one to three years. A county with few of them within commuting range means bussing crews in, per diem, and housing, which is real cost and schedule risk. This counts people employed in construction within about a 120 km drive (BLS QCEW), summed across nearby counties. It is not labor known to be available: most are already committed to other projects, and no public data reveals who is free.

Grid conditions in Custer

For Custer, Nebraska, the following sections turn public grid records into a siting-oriented summary. The highest mapped voltage in Custer is 345 kV, in the high-voltage transmission class. Custer carries 40 substations, a dense footprint across the county.

For Custer, the SPP market (Southwest Power Pool) is the operator that handles interconnection and capacity. The state industrial average retail rate is 8.0 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Custer at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Custer that publish a rate range 2 of 8 serving utilities: 12.5 to 13.0¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

Custer, Nebraska has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Custer, Nebraska, a real zero rather than a gap. Grid carbon intensity for Custer, via its balancing authority, is 871.526 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Custer at 197.11 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Custer, about 5,474 people are employed in construction (BLS QCEW), which speaks to how far crews for a multi-year build would travel, not to labour known to be free.

Read the Custer figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Custer, Nebraska qualify one another, so grid access, substation density, market membership, and rate are meant to be read as a set, not in isolation. Past this screening view, siting in Custer, Nebraska turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Custer, Nebraska traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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